ANCIENT BRITAIN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2635, 18 October 1909, Page 7

ANCIENT BRITAIN.

DISCOVERY OF URNS 3000 YEARS OLD. LONDON, Aug. 20. Professor Haverfield, of Oxford, on Saturday conducted a party of antiquarians over the recently excavated Roman station of Corstopitum-on-Tyne, and expressed the opinion that the remains were of unparalleled importance. Of one large building recently found, Professor Haverfield said the masonry was finer and more solid than anything lie had seen in Roman Britain-—even at Bath. He believed it to be such’ a building as would have been erected only by the State itself. The first century pottery examples which had been found showed, clearly that the colony there was in- existenco at the time of Agricola and would go ■to prove that Watling street really dated further back than was generally supposed. Building operations at Pokesdown, near Bournemouth, have unearthed two ancient “burrows,” or burial chambers, containing many earthenware urns of great antiquity.,. They belong to, the period before the bronze or iron ages, and are believed, to be 31XJU years old.